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- Title: Criminal Procedure - First Circuit Establishes Less Demanding Requirement of Particularized Need to Access Prior Grand Jury Testimony - in re Grand Jury.
- Author : Suffolk University Law Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 289 KB
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Criminal Procedure--First Circuit Establishes Less Demanding Requirement of Particularized Need to Access Prior Grand Jury Testimony--In re Grand Jury, 566 F.3d 12 (1st Cir. 2009) The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, protecting the secrecy of federal grand jury proceedings, permit limited disclosure of grand jury materials. (1) Courts have differed on the standard of need grand jury witnesses must show to access prior testimony transcripts. (2) In In re Grand Jury, (3) the United states Court of Appeals for the First Circuit considered whether a strong showing of particularized need standard should apply to grand jury witnesses seeking access to, not copies of, prior testimony transcripts. (4) The First Circuit, following a United States District Court for the District of Columbia decision, established a less demanding particularized need requirement for grand jury witnesses seeking only access and not a copy of prior testimony transcripts. (5)